12-04-2015, 02:01 AM
(12-04-2015, 12:05 AM)cimm1979 link Wrote:It's a fine line.
If you bounce back to quickly, without the list development, you can end up improving but not enough to get the choccies.
It's my own belief that Collingwood have not been worried about falling away after halfway through the season.
They get the benefits of membership buying the dream early at the till the middle of the year but they also get flexibility with some good draft position. Combine that with some slick trading and they get a strong list.
I'm not 100% sure it's deliberate, but I don't reckon they are upset about all those loses.
Agree..you need depth to win a flag and you can bounce back say like Port, but without 30 odd players capable of playing decent senior footy you cant sustain success...
Pies are building depth and they have that aura of being the biggest club with a great membership base and and that helps them be a destination club for some of the big gun players and they do seem to get deals done....
Buckley needs to deliver as a coach now that he has the basics to work with...unlike Bolton who is still assembling our list and trying to build options and depth...